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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This?  This right here is why 1 in 68 kids have "autism" now in the US.    But not in Canada or Germany or any other industrialized wealthy nation.

[quote]I could care less if ASD is over diagnosed as long as these kids are getting the help they need.[/quote]

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Totally agree with the "1 out of 68" poster.  I even had a psychiatrist recently tell me "too bad he's not autistic, [b]then you could get more services[/b]"!!

Had a girlfriend (although a pretty dense one at that) once tell me that when we got to Disneyland to just tell them that DS had autism so we could move to the front of the line for all the rides! [/quote]

Like what "more services" can you get with an autism label vs other labels?[/quote]

Most health insurances will pay for ABA, speech, OT and PT with an autism diagnosis.  Without it, its either very limited services or none and families have to pay.  Paying means $150 an hour or more several times a week.  Even a comfortable family (i.e. $180,000+) will struggle with that.  Our insurance would not pay until we got the autism diagnosis and then we were offered more therapy than we could ever even use.[/quote]

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